As part of their 50th year anniversary, Adisa A. Alkebulan, chair & associate professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University, invited Black Alliance for Peace leaders Margaret Kimberly & Ajamu Baraka to discuss the interests of Black Lives from a black radical perspective in terms of the Russian-Ukraine special military operation.
Black Alliance for Peace
Margaret Kimberly
Ajamu Baraka
- FACT: This is a turning point in history, still in progress, this is a very dangerous moment
- FACT: Ukraine is a defacto colony of the US, a kleptocracy controlled by oligarchs, the result of a coup in 2014
- FACT: Ukraine crisis was manufactured by NATO in order to maintain EU/US economic hegemony
- FACT: NATO/US will resort to hard power (violence) to maintain hegemony (“if I can’t have it, nobody can” mindset)
- FACT: Russia has been silenced in US media, unable to defend itself; US media shut down public dialogue
- NATO support is not in our interests (destructive to Black Lives all over the world)
- US imperialism is not in our interests, imperialism is driving this entire crisis (consider an anti-imperialist policy agenda)
- US domestic policy is currently not in our interests (WH troll farms, advocating war, capitalism)
- US foreign policy is currently not in our interests (reject ‘white’ supremacy/neo-nazism/’American’ exceptionalism)
- Mainstream media narratives are not in our interests (at least 95% propaganda, advocating war)
- Hating the Russians is not in our interests (Russians are not our enemies, don’t fall for it, it’s not true), we live in a system we cannot trust
Webinar held on March 21, 2022.
